Update twitter with facebook status
Hi, is it possible? Using some scripting or developed application ? I asked this here as scrioting gurus are here around Thanks ...
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Social Network Storage Policies
Does anyone know offhand what the storage policies are for user information retrieved through the apis of twitter, linkedin or myspace? For example, facebook does not allow storage of any kind of user information (ie first name, last name...) for more than 24 hours. ...
Facebook crawler?
Hi all, I'm a graduate student whose research is complex network. I am working on a project that involves analyzing connections between Facebook users. Is it possible to write a crawler for Facebook based on friendship information? I looked around but couldn't find any things useful so far. It seems Facebook isn't fond of such activit...
Why should I use XFN in my HTML?
What is the benefit of using XFN (XHTML Friends Network)? I've seen this on multiple blogs and social networking sites but I don't really understand why it's useful. Other than being able to style these elements with CSS3 and select them with JavaScript, what's the benefit? Do you know of any sites out there that really utilize XFN to en...
networking with people, creating startups
I am about to complete my masters degree in CS and anticipate having some free time to work on a side project. I feel that my programming skills and CS knowledge are sufficient to take on a serious project. Regrettably, I did not do the greatest job networking with other students during my university years, and I wish I had met some f...
Does anyone know a library similar to Openinviter but for connecting your asp.net site to social networks
Hi, we are currently developing a website which will heavily involve connections to several social networks. I name a few (facebook, youtube, flickr, google contacts, windows live contacts, twitter,...) i know (from collegues) that a library exists for php. called openInviter (http://openinviter.com) though this site has to be in asp....
Social Network in Rails - which framework
Should I use: Community Engine Insoshi LovdByLess RailsSpace Roll-my-own I am looking to quickly get a social network up with support for mobile browsing. While I'm familiar with Ruby & Rails, I am not an expert (have built some basic Rails apps, have written a bunch of Ruby programs for enterprise integration). Thanks, skybison ...
Any Ruby on Rails equivalent to Pinax?
Pinax is: An integrated collection of Django applications that provides the most commonly needed social networking features, including openID support, email verification, site announcements, user-to-user messaging, friend invitations, interest groups with discussions, wikis, and more. Cloud27 is a demonstration of Pin...
Social Networking Development - Where to start
I wish to have a yoga community site build based on a social networking infrastucture. I'm not a developer, but i want to get things rolling. Budget is a issue. What development platforms would you recommend? My objective is to identify one, then look for developers who have experience on this platform. My broad requirements are : us...
Dynamics CRM Social Networking Accelerator Protocol Error
I'm trying to implement Microsoft's social networking solution accelerator on my Dynamics CRM deployment. I've resolved a number of issues with the code already but this last one has me stumped. The Social Networking Accelerator (hereafter referred to as SNA) uses the following code to get data from Twitter: case "GET": ...
What's the best way to map the link connection between blogs ?
I wish to perform a social network analysis on a bunch of blogs, plotting who is linking to who (not just by their blogroll but also inside their posts). What software can perform such crawling/data-collecting/mapping ? Thanks! ...
Does ORM for social networking sites makes any sense?
The reason why I ask this is because I need to know whether not using ORM for a social networking site makes any sense at all. My argument why ORM does not fit into social networking sites are: Social networking sites are not a product, thus you don't need to support multiple database. You know what database to use, and you most likel...
Enterprise Collaboration Software - Opinions & Reviews
Is there anyone out there working for an organization that uses an enterprise collaboration software? What is your opinion about it? How does it perform in the following areas: Integration with a Document Management System(s) Ability to have many different kinds of sources for feeds (for example code checkins notifications, sharepoint ...
What technique would you use to find similar people with the same social profile as you? (computer science)
Let's take your Facebook social profile. There are interests, activities, movies, music, and tv-shows. You have these 5 things, in text, of course. Given your social profile and 10 other people, we want to find overlaps, similarity, etc. What method would you use to do it? I"m guessing it would be best to use vectors and Euclidean/Pe...
Tool for building a social network: Elgg or Pinax?
I'm going to build a social network (yes... another one). I'm thinking about using Pinax (which is Django which is Python) or Elgg (PHP). That's the two options I know. Could you help me to choose beetwen them? Another options? Thanks ...
Are there any cms/social networking platforms that facilitate the creation of multiple communities?
We are building an app that we want to add social networking like features too. Our first thought was to take an open source social networking platform or a cms with community features and drop our app into it. It seems that most of these platforms seem to be organized around the idea that there is one network and everyone is part of t...
Free API to broadcast to Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc.
I was wondering if anyone has come across some abstracted API that allows you to link to all these various social outlets to broadcast updates, pictures, videos etc.? ...
Recommendations for email packages
I want to provide some type of email type functionality to the users of my system. Basically their own web-client inbox and the ability to do peer-to-peer messaging (emailing). I dont see this doing a lot of interaction with outside mail providers, mostly just internal users of the system. Can someone give me pointers as to what open so...
Delivering activity feed items in a moderately scalable way
The application I'm working on has an activity feed where each user can see their friends' activity (much like Facebook). I'm looking for a moderately scalable way to show a given users' activity stream on the fly. I say 'moderately' because I'm looking to do this with just a database (Postgresql) and maybe memcached. For instance, I wan...
What is the optimal RDBMS solution for large social networking sites like Facebook?
I found out two possible solutions for implementing the database structure for social networking sites like Facebook. 1.: Creating a 'Relationships' table and inserting every friendship into it. For example: user A adds B as friend (A-B), then the logic puts (A-B) and (B-A) into the 'Relationships' table. Then it indexes the first attri...